Waifish

The bleach-splashed denim jeans were shrunk onto the models 'waifish frames or slashed suggestively to the very upper reaches of their thighs. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Maynard, the waifish 18-year-old writer Salinger befriended when he was 53, who went on to auction off their love letters for $156,500 to—a software developer! ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

The trees still looked spindly, like tall, waifish models posing on long legs for a magazine cover, and while the families living around them had collected new members year after year—boys and girls and dogs and cats—theirs hadn't. ❋ Ann Wahlman (2011)

It was something she wondered might not be in her future, and given her waifish frame and fragile demeanor, she and Guy take every precaution to ensure it is a healthy pregnancy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One teacher involved in an incident last year—the one on the shag rug, if you're having trouble keeping track—was a “waifish, bespectacled” type. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

"I managed to get 140 words a minute for shorthand and 70 for typing, just about scraping through," she says, but already her looks – waifish and coltish, she calls them – had been noticed by the film director Cy Endfield. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As soon as the tables were seated, there was a large gathering of waifish models and well-dressed fashion editors standing outside the banquet hall puffing on cigarettes. ❋ Marshall Heyman (2011)

Even Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt), whom I had almost written off entirely since the casting of waifish Mathew Goode was announced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Being a pasty white femme myself this says volumnes about how sad it is that waifish males are in vogue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They look sickly and waifish enough to pull off the stick figures of the original anime. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed so waifish is the building that last year, while it was still under construction, the Skyscraper Museum featured it in a program titled, "Slenderness: New York Hong Kong." ❋ Dana Rubinstein (2011)

After studying theater and communications at the University of Rhode Island, a then-waifish Horton moved to Los Angeles, where he still lives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As boyfriend of the mean-spirited Nancy Allen, he conspires to dump a bucket of pig's blood on the waifish, wallflower-ish Sissy Spacek (in the role of Carrie). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I barely had the chance to respond, because the door to my room swung half-open, and a waifish woman, perfect olive skin, maybe 23 or 24, robed in a psychedelic purple shawl, stuck her nose in to have a look. ❋ Chico Harlan (2010)

As the night heated up, McEnzie made the rounds — to a waifish girl who looks a lot like Cindy Lauper, at work on a wall painting, to a bearded guy mixing a recently recorded track with Mr. Dash. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The film, starring the waifish Michael Cera (whom many fans of the books didn't quite see as Scott Pilgrim), must now hope it can do better before August ends -- either that or hope for a "Kick Ass" - like life on DVD and Blu-Ray. ❋ Unknown (2010)